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(Redirected from Five Get Over Excited (The Housemartins song)) 1987 single by The Housemartins
"Five Get Over Excited"
Single by The Housemartins
from the album The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death
Released11 May 1987
Recorded1987
GenreRock
LabelGo! Discs
Songwriter(s)Paul Heaton and Stan Cullimore
The Housemartins singles chronology
"Caravan of Love"
(1986) 		"Five Get Over Excited"
(1987) 		"Me and the Farmer"
(1987)

Five Get Over Excited is a song by The Housemartins released as a single from their album The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death.

The follow-up to their #1 UK hit "Caravan of Love" (although it was preceded by the USA-only release of "Flag Day"), it peaked at #11 on the UK Singles Chart in June 1987.

Although it was the first single without drummer Hugh Whitaker, who left the band before this song and album were recorded, Whitaker appears in the music video for the track, where he is kidnapped by new drummer Dave Hemingway.

Music writer Rikki Rooksby notes that the track's "anti-hyperbolic title" is "positively revolutionary", as the use of hyperbole in pop lyrics is pervasive but never admitted. In 2007, the Manchester Evening News described the tune as "another corking chart hit that stands as a beacon amongst the dross of the 1980s."

7 inch single track listing

  • "Five Get Over Excited"
  • "Rebel Without The Airplay"

12 inch/cassette single track listing

  • "Five Get Over Excited"
  • "So Glad"
  • "Hopelessly Devoted To Them"
  • "Rebel Without The Airplay"

Charts

Chart (1987) Peak
position
Dutch Singles Chart 96
Irish Singles Chart 4
UK Singles Chart 11

References

  1. Smith, Robin (9 May 1987). "Index". Record Mirror. p. 5. ISSN 0144-5804.
  2. "Five Get Over Excited", Chart Stats, retrieved 2010-02-10
  3. ^ Strong, Martin C. (2002) The Great Rock Discography, Canongate, ISBN 1-84195-312-1, p. 489
  4. Rikki Rooksby. The title may also be a reference to Enid Blyton 's Famous Five novels. Lyrics: Writing Better Words for Your Songs (2006) (ISBN 978-0879308858)
  5. "Releases: Music". Manchester Evening News. November 6, 2007.
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